REFUGIO - The tiny town of Refugio stands where the last Spanish mission was built in Texas in 1795. Driving through the town of fewer than 3,000 residents, many may be unaware of the site's ...

Six years after it was decommissioned, the mission ruins were at the center of the Battle of Refugio during the Texas Revolution. Mexican forces overwhelmed and executed the 200 Texan soldiers ...

Further obstacles, however, lay ahead. The mission played home to the Battle of Refugio in 1836, where it found itself bombarded by cannon balls, Wales said. Although the building remained in use ...